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Public investment and re-election prospects in developed countries
Katsimi, Margarita; Sarantides, Vassilis - 2011
does not affect re-election prospects. We also find that voters punish politicians who create deficits during elections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278871
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Public Investment and Re-election Prospects in Developed Countries
Katsimi, Margarita; Sarantides, Vassilis - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2013
affect re-election prospects. We also find that voters disfavour politicians who create deficits during elections, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010986601
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Do elections affect the composition of fiscal policy?
Katsimi, Margarita; Sarantides, Vassilis - 2010
This paper investigates the impact of elections on the level and composition of fiscal instruments using a sample of 19 … find that elections shift public spending towards current and away from capital expenditures. Moreover, although we find no … evidence for an electoral cycle for government deficit and expenditures, we do find a negative effect of elections on revenue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274381
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Do Elections Affect the Composition of Fiscal Policy?
Katsimi, Margarita; Sarantides, Vassilis - CESifo - 2010
This paper investigates the impact of elections on the level and composition of fiscal instruments using a sample of 19 … find that elections shift public spending towards current and away from capital expenditures. Moreover, although we find no … evidence for an electoral cycle for government deficit and expenditures, we do find a negative effect of elections on revenue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534045
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Public investment and re-election prospects in developed countries
Katsimē, Margarita; Sarantides, Vassilis - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732032
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Do expected downturns kill political budget cycles?
Bohn, Frank; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020
The political budget cycle (PBC) literature argues that governments expand deficits in election years. However, what happens when an economic downturn is expected? Will the government allow the deficit to expand even further, or will it resort to spending cuts and tax increases? When voters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546036
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Elections and the structure of taxation in developing countries.
Ehrhart, H. - Banque de France - 2013
taxes). It thus represents an extension of traditional political budget-cycle analyses assessing the impact of elections on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010816011
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Do expected downturns kill political budget cycles?
Bohn, Frank; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020
The political budget cycle (PBC) literature argues that governments expand deficits in election years. However, what happens when an economic downturn is expected? Will the government allow the deficit to expand even further, or will it resort to spending cuts and tax increases? When voters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233000
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Roads or Schools? Political Budget Cycles with different types of voters.
Uribe, Lopez; Pilar, Maria del - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using a new Colombian data set (1830-2000), we analyze how changes in the electoral legislation with regard to the characteristics of voters (in terms of education and income levels) has affected fiscal policy in electoral times. In line with economic theory, we show that after the law was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114135
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Do elections affect the composition of fiscal policy in developed, established democracies?
Katsimi, Margarita; Sarantides, Vassilis - In: Public Choice 151 (2012) 1, pp. 325-362
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